Tyler School of Art and Architecture

The Tyler School of Art was founded in 1935 by sculptor and arts patron Stella Elkins Tyler and her mentor, sculptor Boris Blai in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. She donated her nine-acre estate to Temple University for its creation. The school established a Rome campus in 1971, and in 2009 moved to a new, 255,000-square-foot facility at Temple's Main Campus. In 2012, Temple’s architecture program joined the school and other built-environment disciplines were added a few years later. In 2019, the school officially changed its name to Tyler School of Art and Architecture under the leadership of Dean Susan E. Cahan.